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Can you make a circle
Can you tell me?
Chicken on a fence post
Chiri bim, chiri bom
Clapping Land
Come along everyone / Here we
go
Come and join our circle
Cut the cake
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Last updated: 12/7/2020
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These
songs are nursery rhymes and other traditional songs compiled, illustrated and
music arranged by Dany Rosevear.
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Can you make a circle? 🔊
This very simple
circle game will get everyone together ready to sit for circle time or for a
more active game. Add skip, jump or any other movement; an opportunity to
thinks of other ways to move. Get together and hold hands in a ring. Follow the
words. |
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Can you make a circle, a
circle, a circle? Can you make a circle?
Show me how. We can make a circle, a
circle, a circle, We can make a circle;
Watch us now. Can you walk round in a
circle, a circle, a circle? Can you walk round in a
circle? Show me how. We can walk round in a
circle, a circle, a circle, We can walk round in a
circle; Watch us now. |
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This song can be adapted to work with your physical or dramatic
objectives. One child goes in the centre of the
circle and mimes an action: texting, cycling, shopping. The others guess what
they are doing and then copy them. Skip in a circle; one child in the
centre chooses a movement and the other children then copy it.
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Chicken on a fence post 🔊
A race to the
middle play party song from the U.S.A. Younger children
children could play this as a single circle game and just sing the first
verse repeatedly. Make two circles, one inside the other, holding
hands. A toy chicken is placed in the centre. Two children are chosen as
‘foxes’, they close their eyes as two pairs are chosen to make arched
gateways, one in each circle, so when the song ends the ‘foxes’ can race to
the middle where the first to arrive picks up the chicken. The ‘foxes’ open their eyes as the song starts and
walk round outside the circle. Both circles walk in opposite directions to
the beat of the song. As the song finishes the children identified make
gateways and the two ‘foxes’ race their way to the centre. The first there
holds the chicken aloft. The two ‘foxes’ then choose two more children and
the game continues. |
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Chicken on the fence post,
can’t dance Josey Chicken on the fence post,
can’t dance Josey, Chicken on the fence post,
can’t dance Josey, Hi ho, Susan Browny-o! Choose your partner and
come dance Josey… Chew my gum while I dance
Josey… Shoestrings broke and I
can’t dance Josey… Hold my mule while I dance
Josey… Stumped my toe so I can’t
dance Josey… Eaten by a crocodile,
can't dance Josey… |
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Chiri bim, biri bom 🔊
A call and
response Yiddish circle game. It can be
danced as a ‘hora’ an Eastern European / Balkan dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww5uSzT0Wes,
but a simple dance as below is still great fun. Some might
also enjoy this modern take on the story behind this song by Mark Binder in
‘Stories for peace’: http://www.jwmag.org/page.aspx?pid=3058. Children stand in a circle holding hands Make little
running steps to the left for the first four bars, Turn to the right and do
the same. Next two bars walk for steps into the centre and stamp three times.
Move back four steps and stamp. Repeat last two movements finishing with two
stamps. |
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Chiri bim, chiri bim, Chiri bom, chiri bom, Chiri bim bom bim bom bim
bom. Chiri bim, chiri bim, Chiri bom, chiri bom, Chiri bim bom bim bom bim
bom. Ay chiri chiri chiri bim
bim bom, Ay chiri chiri chiri bim
bim bom, Ay chiri chiri chiri bim
bim bom, Ay chiri chiri bim bom. |
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This song is sung as a cheerful Christmas song in Norway ‘Jeg gikk meg
over sjø og land ‘. It is also sung in other parts of Scandinavia. Skip round in a circle holding
hands for the first five lines. For the second part drop hands and move round
the circle one behind the other clapping, stamping, hopping or whatever takes
your fancy!
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Come and join the circle 🔊
Invite
children into the ring – a song might work better for the shy child rather
than a verbal invitation. Supports shape
recognition, encourage children think of other shapes that are round: clock
face, moon, dish, ball. |
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Come and join our circle, Our circle, our circle, Come and join our circle, It’s round like the… sun.
/ moon, clock, dish, ball |
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Cut the cake 🔊
Have lots of fun
and learn to be thoughtful care for each other when ‘cutting’ and passing
while running fast. Children stand in a circle clapping hands while one
child walks round the outside. They then shake their bodies and walk round in
the circle holding hands. On the last line the outside child ‘cuts’ gently
with the side of their hand through two children’s hands. These two children
then run in opposite directions round the circle. The first to arrive back
and ‘high five’ the original child becomes the next one to walk outside as
the game begins again. |
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Clap your hands together, Give a little shake. Make a happy circle, And then you cut the cake! |
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